Association of blood pressure in late adolescence with subsequent mortality: cohort study of Swedish male conscripts.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the nature and magnitude of relations of systolic and diastolic blood pressures in late adolescence to mortality.

Design

Nationwide cohort study.

Setting

General community in Sweden.

Participants

Swedish men (n = 1,207,141) who had military conscription examinations between 1969 and 1995 at a mean age of 18.4 years, followed up for a median of 24 (range 0-37) years.

Main outcome measures

Total mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and non-cardiovascular mortality.

Results

During follow-up, 28,934 (2.4%) men died. The relation of systolic blood pressure to total mortality was U shaped, with the lowest risk at a systolic blood pressure of about 130 mm Hg. This pattern was driven by the relation to non-cardiovascular mortality

SUBMITTER: Sundstrom J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3042737 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature